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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Rebukes Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Deriding His Candidacy  —  Donald J. Trump on Tuesday assailed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court for speaking out on the presidential race, calling her disdainful remarks about his candidacy “highly inappropriate” and suggesting that she owed other justices an apology.
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has crossed way, way over the line  —  The Supreme Court is becoming more politicized.  The Notorious RBG just made things way worse. … If Spoiler Alerts has had a theme for 2016, it's been that Donald Trump is massively unfit to be president …
New York Times:
Ginsburg Knows, If Trump Wins, the Rule of Law Is at Risk
Discussion: Althouse
Randy Furst / Star Tribune:
Minneapolis cops working Lynx game walk out over player comments, warm-up jerseys  —  Police union leader says walkout is justified.  —  Four off-duty Minneapolis police officers working the Minnesota Lynx game at Target Center on Saturday night walked off the job after the players held …
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Matt Adams / Fox 59:
IMPD: Man fires 17 shots into officer's patrol car and home, screams he hates police  —  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Indianapolis Metropolitan police are investigating after a man shot up an officer's house on the east side of Indianapolis early Tuesday morning.  —  According to IMPD …
Discussion: Pamela Geller, WREG-TV and Law Officer
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Black doctor to police: I defend you, I will care for you — but I still fear you
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   OBAMA TURNS OFF COPS=> Officers REFUSE TO APPLAUD During Obama's Race Lecture at Dallas Police Memorial (VIDEO)
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News and Newt Gingrich agree to suspend contributor agreement  —  Fox News is suspending its contributor agreement with Newt Gingrich, the channel announced on Tuesday.  —  “Fox News Channel has mutually agreed to suspend its contributor agreement with Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich effective immediately.
Discussion: ABC News, The Week and Political Wire
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CNN:
Pence, Gingrich make the final cut in Trump's VP search, sources say
Discussion: The Resurgent and Politicus USA
Kelly O'Donnell / NBC News:
Team Trump Plans Public Event Friday With VP Pick
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:
Holocaust Museum to visitors: Please stop catching Pokemon here  —  Almost everywhere you turn, it seems like people have their eyes glued to smartphone screens playing Pokemon Go.  Since its launch last week, the app has quickly become a cultural phenomenon that has fans of all ages hunting around …
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Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones:
Al Franken Is Worried About Pokemon Go
Discussion: Ars Technica, Mediaite and The Verge
New York Times:
James Stavridis, Retired Admiral, Is Being Vetted as Hillary Clinton's Running Mate  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign is vetting James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star Navy admiral who served as the 16th supreme allied commander at NATO, as a possible running mate, according to a person with knowledge of the vetting process.
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Is Invited to Speak on Democratic Convention's First Night  —  In an apparent sign that Senator Elizabeth Warren will not be named Hillary Clinton's running mate, Ms. Warren was invited by Mrs. Clinton's campaign on Tuesday to deliver a prime-time address on the first night …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump aide: Sanders endorsement ‘exhibit A in our rigged system’  —  of betraying his supporters by endorsing Hillary Clinton  —  “Bernie's endorsement becomes exhibit A in our rigged system,” senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said in a statement Tuesday.
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
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Bernie Sanders:
Portsmouth Organizing Event with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Gary Johnson woos ‘burned’ Sanders supporters
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu  —  The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year's Israeli parliamentary elections …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
State Department Purged Emails About Secret Anti-Netanyahu Campaign
Discussion: Washington Post and Israel Matzav
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
David Duke Plans to Run for Congress Against the Republican Who Spoke to His Group  —  The former KKK grand wizard said he wants to defeat Steve Scalise, who reportedly once called himself “David Duke without the baggage.”  —  David Duke says he is getting ready to run for Congress.
Discussion: RedState and Talking Points Memo
Sophia Rosenbaum / New York Post:
I got caught cheating through Pokémon Go  —  Pokémon Go ruined my love life!  —  Evan Scribner claims he's now single after his girlfriend discovered he was “cheating” on her thanks to the addicting scavenger hunt-style cellphone game — which revealed his two-timing ways.
Steve Sinovic / Albuquerque Journal:
Presbyterian to drop out of Obamacare exchange  —  This is the entrance, at right, to the Ted and Margaret Jorgensen Cancer Center at Presbyterian's Rust Medical Center in Rio Rancho.  (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many insurers are shedding their Obamacare plans lately …
Discussion: Hot Air and New York Times
Frank Main / Chicago Sun Times:
Cop in ‘antlers photo’ shouldn't get job back, appeals court says  —  A former Chicago Police detective shown in a photo posing as a hunter who bagged a black teenager as a trophy should not get his job back, an Illinois appellate court has ruled.  —  Timothy McDermott had appealed the decision …
Discussion: Associated Press
Elura Nanos / LawNewz:
GOP Sneaks Porn into Platform Calls It ‘Public Health Crisis’  —  This week, the GOP is working on its official platform.  As expected, it's packed with a ton of garbage (support for gay “conversion therapy,” and refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of same-sex marriage, just to name some of it) …
New Haven Independent:
Worker Smashes “Racist” Panel, Loses Job  —  (Note: We have temporarily suspended commenting and True Vote-ing on this story because our server couldn't handle the demand; we wanted to avoid having the site crash.  We hope to renew those functions eventually.)
NBC News:
Hillary Clinton's Lead Over Trump Shrinks After Controversial Week: Poll  —  Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump narrowed to 3 points this week after several days of controversy following FBI Director James Comey's recommendation that no criminal charges be brought against the former secretary …
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Joe Biden: Obama Tells Cops in White House Meeting Their Police Forces Are Racist  —  President Barack Obama is trying to muffle politically dangerous opposition from police groups to his support for the radical and violent Black Lives Movement — but he's also insisting to cops that their careers …
Jennifer Aniston / The Huffington Post:
For The Record  —  Let me start by saying that addressing gossip is something I have never done.  I don't like to give energy to the business of lies, but I wanted to participate in a larger conversation that has already begun and needs to continue.  Since I'm not on social media, I decided to put my thoughts here in writing.
field negro:
Blaming Obama for racism.  —  * “Speaking in the wake of the Dallas horrors, President Obama correctly assured us that race relations are not as bad in this country today as they were during the Watts riots of the sixties.  —  But that was over fifty years ago and is only part of the story.
Los Angeles Times:
Amid protests, panel finds that LAPD did not violate deadly force rules in shooting of black woman in South L.A.  —  As hundreds of demonstrators descended on downtown Los Angeles, the city's Police Commission on Tuesday faulted two LAPD officers for their tactics leading up to the killing …
Discussion: Mashable and POLICE Magazine
 
 
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Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
McCarthy: No Gun Bill This Week, But Dallas Response Possible
Discussion: Daily Kos
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
I thought I had found proof that Donald Trump gives to charity. But it wasn't that Donald Trump.
Discussion: Mediaite, RedState and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton legal team moves to block deposition in email lawsuit
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Quentin Tarantino Says to Expect Just Two More Films
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP platform includes Trump's wall
Discussion: Politico
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Obama uses Dallas memorial to confront nation on race
Discussion: France 24 and Politicus USA
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Tiffany DeMasters / fox13now.com:
Sandy boy with autism shatters stereotypes, takes World Title in Taekwondo competition
Discussion: WGN-TV
Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Too Old for Sex? Not at This Nursing Home
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Andy Robertson / Forbes:
‘Lego Disney Castle’ Intricately Recreates Disney Resort's Cinderella Castle In 4,000 Bricks
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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